Pick QuestDB if
teams who will stay on the Apache self-host at $0 while they open a first console chart, then talk to QuestDB about Enterprise because /pricing does not print a Cloud $ tile.
Read the QuestDB pageQuestDB vs Tinybird
Our take
Pick QuestDB if teams who will stay on the Apache self-host at $0 while they open a first console chart, then talk to QuestDB about Enterprise because /pricing does not print a Cloud $ tile. Pick Tinybird if app teams who will buy Developer at the printed $49/month (0.5 vCPU, 25 GB) while they publish a first Pipe, then talk to sales for SaaS when they need up to 32 vCPUs and 500 GB.
Best for
QuestDB Ingest-and-chart SQL you start at $0 on your host
Tinybird SQL APIs you meter by vCPU
Free plan
QuestDB $0 · apache-2.0. You run the binary + the web console. Confirmed by LICENSE.txt (“Apache License / Version 2.0”)
Tinybird No free plan
Lowest paid
QuestDB
Tinybird Meters $0.0002
Next step up
QuestDB
Tinybird Developer (table header) $25/mo
Runs where
QuestDB
Tinybird Hosted
Watch out
QuestDB $0 is the license, not the ingest disk
Tinybird The page prints both $49 and “starting at $25” for Developer
Last checked
QuestDB 2026-10-23 · github.com/questdb/questdb/blob
Tinybird 2026-10-23 · tinybird.co/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Tinybird if
app teams who will buy Developer at the printed $49/month (0.5 vCPU, 25 GB) while they publish a first Pipe, then talk to sales for SaaS when they need up to 32 vCPUs and 500 GB.
Read the Tinybird page